MTV’s ‘Skins’ Made Me Wish More Teens Had Tiger Moms

Even if you don’t have kids, the depiction of modern teen life on MTV’s new drama, “Skins,” may make you worry, Boomer-like, what’s going on with the under-20 set today. Where’s the Tiger Mom when you need her?

In the first episode, which premiered last night, a girl sneaks home after a debauched night of partying. A boy has decorated his bedroom with porno magazines (and not Playboy, the hardcore kind). Another girl is willing to trade sexual favors for drugs. Later, that same girl pops too many pills and has to be rushed to the hospital. In a later episode, another boy takes sexual performance pills and spends the entire hour with a visible erection.

What’s more, as many reviewers have pointed out, on “Skins,” unlike typical teen shows, there’s seemingly no negative consequences to all this reckless behavior. At one point, the “Skins” gang drives a luxury SUV into a lake — and laughs about it. As the Parents Television Council said in one of the advocacy group’s famously tsk-tsking statements: ““Skins may well be the most dangerous show for children that we have ever seen.”

Reader, you have no idea how depressing it feels to actually agree with the Parents Television Council.

Do you think the show is too risque for teens? Let us know in the comments.